From an early age, I wondered about the most profound questions of existence, but as an American girl from Colorado, I was raised almost entirely without any religion or spirituality, except for my grandmother’s wisdom: God lives inside your heart. I sought answers to...

Did you ever get to the end of an experience and think to yourself, “Gosh, I’m SO glad I worried so much about that!” Not likely. So, why do we worry so much? If it never really helps, and sucks so much of our energy, how come worry consumes us? It’s a habit of our...

The Vajrayana school of Buddhism is one of the latest to evolve within the various Buddhist schools of thought. Founded in the late the 8th century by a figurehead named Padmasambhava, this sect involves practices of Tantra that bear a great similarity to the Tantric...

When I was 26, I had already spent nearly 7 years dedicating my life to the practice of yoga. There had been some major traumas in my teenage years that I had tried to shake off of my psyche through yoga as well as various forms of therapy. But, like many people with...